Purbo Paschim
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Purbo Paschim
Purbo Paschim is one of Sunil Gangopadhyay’s biggest novels, a sprawling story that follows several families on both sides of the Bengal border after Partition. The title means East and West, and the book really does live in both, in Calcutta and in what became East Pakistan and then Bangladesh.
It is long but never slow. Sunil Gangopadhyay had a gift for keeping many lives moving at once, and this is probably the book that shows it best.
About the Author
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on 7 September 1934, in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh). He was an Indian poet, historian, and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He studied at Surendranath College, Dum Dum Motijheel College, City College,…
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